Search Results for: finance industry
Beware of unauthorised companies offering investment and financial services
June 19th, 2019
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Austria (Financial Market Autority – FMA), Malta (Malta Financial Services ...
iSignthis announced the appointment of a new board member to iSignthis eMoney
May 21st, 2019
Highlights Appoints new board member to iSignthis eMoney Ltd board Dr George Theocharides experience includes o CySec Board (Cypriot Securities sector regulator) o Bank of Cyprus & Centre for Blockchain technologies o Associate Professor at Cyprus International Institute of ...
G20 and the financial war
December 6th, 2018
Introduction President Trump initiated the trade war with China. There is a widespread assumption he is pursuing his “art of the deal”, coming into negotiations aggressively to get a satisfactory compromise. Therefore, the script goes, China will be ...
Two Initial Coin Offering issuers settle registration charges
November 20th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). These are the Commission’s first cases imposing civil penalties solely for ICO securities offering registration violations. Both companies ...
Hong Kong unveiled first set of rules governing the cryptocurrency market
November 2nd, 2018
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog unveiled on Thursday a comprehensive set of regulations governing cryptocurrencies in a move to enhance investor protection which analysts believe could help make the city a major trading centre for virtual assets, analysts said. The ...
Bitcoin turns 10 — how it went from an abstract idea to a $100 billion market in a decade
November 1st, 2018
Ten years ago, as Lehman Brothers was declaring bankruptcy and the global economy was lurching into recession, the idea for an alternative currency was being quietly built online. Bitcoin went from an anti-establishment fad on the internet to a ...
The time taken for law firms to be paid for work has fallen by a week
October 31st, 2018
The time taken for law firms to be paid for work has fallen by a week, but still takes over four months to hit the accounts. The billing time that is ’locked up’ has fallen by 7 days, but ...
UK to introduce ‘Google tax’ in 2020
October 31st, 2018
When it comes to tech, Britain wants to have its cake and eat it, too. The U.K. moved on Monday to extract more tax from the likes of Google and Facebook, even as London pushes aggressively to make itself ...
Positions, problems and prospects of EU ‘digital tax’ proposal
September 14th, 2018
Explained: The EU ‘Digital Tax’ Scramble EU finance ministers met last weekend for the fourth time this year to agree on a tax levy targeting large digital multinationals such as Apple, Facebook and Google – yet the political battle ...
5 ways the World Economic Forum says Artificial intelligence is changing banking
September 13th, 2018
Artificial intelligence has been a focus of discussions at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, over the past few years, so the organization decided to partner with Deloitte Consulting on a study that sought to “cut ...
